The Rig [Blu-ray]

For the most part the acting was excellent, the story fast paced and the horror darn good!

THE RIG is a weird mix of genres and styles.* On one level, it's a standard MONSTER MOVIE. A creature beneath the ocean floor is disturbed by oil drilling. It emerges from underground, climbs aboard the oil rig ... and the body count mounts!As a monster movie, it's what you'd expect. A disparate group of oil rig workers, skulking about dimly-lit steel corridors, seeking a monster, which picks off the workers, one-by-one.But there are some odd aspects to this film.* Too many SOAP OPERA elements.We have two brothers, one older, one younger. They bicker, because the younger one is lost in the older one's shadow. He leaves the oil rig, so he can forge his own identity on another rig.Meanwhile, the rig's supervisor is father to one of the women on the rig. She has a lover, another oil rig worker. But Dad wants his daughter to "do something" more meaningful with her life than being an oil rig worker."I wanted something better for you!" he laments."I'm not mom!" she retorts."I know," he saddens.They both gaze sadly at a photo of Mom.Still, this Dad remains extra hard on his daughter's lover. When the monster kills the lover's co-worker, Dad give a long speech on responsibility to the lover."Don't you think you were too hard on him?" the daughter later complains, during a lengthy father/daughter dialog.Then the monster kills Dad. The daughter sees the blood in Dad's office. Tears well in her eyes. She later suffers flashbacks of their father/daughter times together.Meanwhile, two OTHER crew members are having an affair. When the monster kills the woman, her lover screams at the man who was with her. "You didn't protect her!" And he beats up this co-worker.I guess it's nice that these characters are fleshed-out. But THE RIG goes overboard with it. And it's not like the characters are all that unique. Their conflicts are cliched, their dialog trite, of the sort one finds in soap operas.It feels weird, having all these soapish spats and arguments amid the creature attacks.* Then there's the CLASSICAL MUSIC. Very artsy. But a strange choice for a monster movie.When a man is killed, his death is depicted in slow motion, to a violin accompaniment. Later, another man rushes through the hallways, to a classical piano score.Monster movie scenes in slow motion -- to classical music accompaniment? Was the filmmaker trying to create a horror-art film? But the monster is so stupid, the usual rubber-suited beast!* Then there are the REALITY TV stylistics. So many shaky-cam shots, and jump-cut editing.An on-shore boss tells the younger brother that he cannot return to the rig, on which his older brother might be dead. Then several jump-cuts of the younger brother outside the office, slamming his fists against equipment in frustration. Much like a reality show producer following his subjects around.This occasional reality TV show camerawork and editing, clashes with the occasional artsy classical music. Just as the soap opera pathos clashes with the rubber suit monster.Just WHAT kind of film is THE RIG supposed to be? It's aesthetically all over the map, now this, now that.Some other observations...* It takes too long for the killings to start. Weakens the horror.* We see very little of the monster. Weakens the horror.* It's never explained WHY the monster drags his victims off, instead of leaving them dead on the spot. In  Alien , it was to impregnate them with her young, but no reason is given in THE RIG. And the victims are dragged off to somewhere seemingly arbitrary. No place special, really.* Some elements are directly lifted from  Alien . There's a "Sigourney Weaver moment" -- when the sole survivor woman presses herself fearfully against a metal wall -- the creature lurking on the other side!* There are some nice surprises. SPOILER ...A comedic/wimpy black guy warns one oil rig worker NOT to follow the noise, but to run the OTHER way. Normally, good advice. (In that regard, he's like the wise black maid who quit her job when the demon started manifesting itself in  Mausoleum .) But then black guy is jumped by the creature -- which was BEHIND the noise. (Apparently, the noise wasn't the creature). Nice surprise.THE RIG is an okay horror film. Entertaining, but only just.

Ordered this movie for my mom she said it was good but every time I try to watch it Im soooooo tired and end up falling asleep.

If you think flammable, purple-bleeding, Sleestaks attacking oil rig workers sounds fun, then this is a movie for you. The movie also has some Alien overtones, but it really isn't Alien.

The nice girl, of course, is the very pretty and very shapely Serah D'Laine, who although her obvious attributes, is still on the fringe of serious acceptance in the Hollywood world.This picture won't help her much.....It is VERY amateurishly made, looks like it was filmed with a IPhone 12 , with some unprofessional framing, forced sound, and a curious mix of plots thrown in around a couple of creatures that you never fully see, nor, are explained in any manner whatsoever.I rented it for two reasons: I like William Forsythe a lot, always plays unrelentingly tough characters, and secondly, it was only 1.99...lol....but unlike the promo summary, Forsythe doesn't get to lead the crew against these creatures, because (spoiler), they knock him off way too early.....I have the feeling, that as he saw where this was going, he had enough of this nonsense, and begged out.It does get a little exciting, but the video is very blurry, and you cannot keep track of the sets, as they jump from one place to another.....honestly, it was a train wreck of a movie, however, I am always a sucker for a pretty girl, and Serah kept me from giving it only 1 star.

I am Syfy buff so anything wh monsters are my favorite. This one had a good plot and I was pleasantly surprised. Also, this was the first time I rented a movie off my prime and it was extremely easy. Glad I experienced it and will look for more.

THIS POOR MOVIE HAS TWO THINGS GOING FOR IT. THE CREATURE SUITS, AND THE SHOWER SCENE.The rest is pretty forgetable. There is no story at all,and alot of the scenes were drawn out, with the actors walking as slowly as possible down catwalks,and hallways just to stretch the running time,and when the characters do decide to run, the director switches to slow motion shots????Again probably to stretch the running time, because nothing really happens during this film.But the monsters are scary and fast, and the first few kills do startle a bit, but unless your a die hard creature feature kind of person(like me) you may want to skip this one. And the monsters look alot like sleestaks with teeth!It's not the worst I've seen, but the filmakers should really have worked out a better story.

Love it but same thing mistake on my son acct johnny Henley but need removed it and put it on my acct vudu thank u

Right down to the use of the name 'Weyland'. You know the story - drill the ocean floor, something nasty is uncovered, wild storm, no communication with the mainland and rig workers getting picked off one by one. But done on the ultra-cheap and with little regard to character development so you don't really know the people or care too much when they are despatched. Probably wisely, the creatures get very little airtime. The audio on this disk is extraordinarily busy and is always getting in the way of the actors' voices so sometimes it's very difficult to hear what they are saying. And those parts of the movie that would be better off in the quiet or just with the storm in the background get completely overwhelmed by music. The story is OK but shot in such a way that reminded me of watching a daytime soap opera rather than a horror film... And Amazon says the disk is Region 2 locked but there is nothing to say this on the box and I had no issues playing it in a Region 4 player.

Tense thriller. There are strong elements of fear and dread in an isolated environment. It uses classical music to increase the sense of fear and dread. There are some shocking and gruesome killing scenes. The plot follows the story of a group of Oil Rig Workers who are hunted by a strange alien like creature.

This has got to be the biggest pile of garbage I've ever put myself through... don't buy it!!!

This film is just awful. I was sucked in by the DVD cover art work of a huge monster below an oil rig; but in fact the actual monster in the film is a man in a rubbish monster suit, so beware.Why did the film makers behind this film even bother, oh I know why to take money off of idiots like me lol

very good film one you can rewatch